Thank you for this good game. I like it.

We like this game too, albiet it's a bit repetitive and gets old if you play it alot. We're currently having a problem with Pingo as well. Although we've completed the entire game a few times already, dd/dh started playing again. The Level 18 Pingo has one number left, 25, and the number of spins left keeps INCREASING instead of decreasing down, therefore, it won't end. A 25 hasn't even popped up in any of the other rows or columns. I went to their website and didn't find much in the way of any help. I guess I'll Google and see if any revelations pop up. But glancing thru these comments tells me that there are quite a few bugs in Pingo...

I love this game very much. Looking for a rerun.

Good game. I'm having fun with it.

Two small problems with the "pingo" part (they don't affect successful completion of the game, but do affect score):

1. It doesn't match numbers vertically in the right-most column. That's a bug.

2. In "easy mode" pingo high-lights the numbers that match, and it doesn't let you take the next turn until you've made all the possible matches. That makes removes all skill and makes it too easy.

Yeah I agree, that's a good idea. In the meanwhile, got hook with MC:Vegas. I like to play bingo games from these guys.

Thanks again for another wonderful game GGOTD!!! I love HOG games and this series is fun! Downloaded and plays just fine on Vista!! You folks are the greatest!

Thank you Whiterabbit.

I've already played through this game twice. It's fun and addictive! I also love similar games Cairo and Golden Prague by the same author and given away here. Thanks GAOTD!

This will probably not be my favorite of the Mysterious City games, as I'm not a big fan of Las Vegas. However, the game installed just fine, and I got the extended-time option (the problems I had with the extended-time option in the Prague game have been explained very well here and in the forums; thank you, watcher13).

Now if you just repeat the Cairo game, I'll have all 3 of the Mysterious City games (hint, hint...)

WR, I'll definitely check out the DaVinci game over at Gametop. Thanks again to you, and to GGOTD.

Another great game! It's well worth the price, if you like hidden object games. (I love them!)

It runs just fine on Vista, too.

Bug: sometimes, playing the number game, it will not allow selecting a matched number. Annoying, but not enough to ruin the game.

This game Mysterious City: Vegas has nice graphics.I always liked the find the differences puzzles.I wish you could come out with a find the differences type game.I would love it.thks ggotd

Hi spr4660,

Turn your security off temporarily.

To Topaz,

No, I just remember seeing it over the last week. Search the Games thread and you should find it. I'll check later if I have time. :)

To Lucky Kitty,

To delete just go to the place where it was installed and delete the folder. If you are bothered about the few orphan entries left in the registry go to the run command in the Start menu and type in regedit; when the registry editor opens click on the edit (found in the tool bar at the top of the editor). From the drop down menu select find or find next. Type in Vegas and click on okay. As each entry is found make sure it's not releated to some other program then delte it by right clicking on the entry. To find the next entry press F3. Befor you start deleting entries create a restore point just in case you accidentally delete something you shouldn't have.


WR

Thank you so much for this game. I still love hidden object games.
Because of a major meltdown on my computer, I lost everything that I
had from GOAD and was happy to see this, as I was in the middle of playing Cairo when my computer died. No fault of the game. I was taken to a bad URL that made my computer sick and couldn't repair it, so I had to reinstall Windows. So I, for one, will not mind seeing a bunch of repeat titles on both boards. Actually, I'm hoping for some.

This latest in the series is still worthwhile, but not necessary an improvement on the previous two. For two reasons: First, they gave you 15 extra minutes in the normal mode, taking it from difficult to adequate, but that takes the challenge out of it for good players. They should have left it at :30 and less proficient players would still do find in the relaxed mode. Second, the 3 mini arcade games that I played - I've gone through the first 2 days - are ridiculous and pointless. Apparently, this developer(s) has never been in a casino. As WR says, they are COMPLETELY based on luck and therefore pointless. The first - poker - is really a shame, because they just designed it backwards. In their version you bet only before the deal, not between the deal and the draw, where one can actually bet on their assessment of the hand. It's probably better to just bet the minimum or the maximum because all other strategy is pointless - you have no control or decision to make until AFTER you bet(!), when it's too late. The second game - the slot machine - is, as said, all luck. One tip, bet the maximum. I hit 8 out of 9 tries. In fact, I racked up 80% of my points in the game that way and didn't figure out to bet the maximum until half way through, which is also ridiculous. Then there's the infamous aforementioned Pingo. I'm not sure Pingo's broken. You can only match the numbers if they're in a straight line either horizontally or vertically - not really explained in the rules - not just because there on the board. Nevertheless, Pingo plays itself, which is truly pointless, and you have to make 25(!) spins. What a waste!

Having said that, the rest of the game is just fine. Unlike my objection with Cairo and Praque, this game doesn't need explanatory captions. After all, it's all Vegas, it's all just a garish amusement park, it's mostly historically insignificant, and some of it transitory. Not that I'm knocking it, but it's hardly has the potential to be educational. Unless you're teaching your kids the economics of excess. And clutter, the main method used to hide objects in these games, looks least incongruous in the Vegas setting. The music is representative, but probably the blandest of the 3, though that means there's less chance you might find it distracting or get sick of it.

Speaking of clutter, I probably overstated that in my reviews of Cairo and Prague. There is some effort to integrate certain objects into the background. The games actually reward you with different point totals based on how hard the object is supposed to be to find. Same with the "what's the difference" puzzles. Also, Vegas seems to be the most generous with the points, Cairo in particular seemed to penalize you not only with minutes but loss of points for using hints, though I haven't verified it. As to time, I had to replay the first day, barely missing on the last level, but, unlike Praque, I only got about half new objects the second time around, making it too easy to get through the second time. Also, I didn't have to restart on the level I missed, only had to pick up from where I left off, surely a wrong decision by the developers.

The game is portable, BUT, you can't take your profiles with you automatically from machine to machine. You have to copy and paste these files from machine to machine because the game purposely places them outside the game's folder, and won't look for them inside the game's folder if you place them there. Please see my forum post for an explanation:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6405#post-66585

Overall, a decent game. Worth the 9.99 IF the developer will learn something about casino games and build in AT LEAST A LITTLE SKILL into the casino games, remove the 50% time increase, (after all, you gain time anyway the 2nd time around because you already know the mini-puzzles) fix the random generator, and restart missed levels completely. I respect this company's efforts, and it had a good idea here, but it's tinkering with it's winning design is heading in the WRONG direction. Still like Cairo the best.

Mysterious City Vegas encounters an error and closes I can only play 3 stages and it closes, very annoying.

To Gmon #53 - I found this games very challenging as well when I had cataracts. Had the surgery in mid September and was able to see things (especially in Cairo) that I had always just clicked on out of faith!!

For those who like the relaxed play - the newest version of Golden Prague has that option as well so if it returns I'd download it.

I was excited to see a casino game, even if the game is more of a picture search than anything else, and the reviews seemed positive but I honestly don't understand why the rating were so high. This game is flawed, and some levels are just ridiculous. For example, the levels where you have to match the blank shape to an object is way too vague. A blank circle is not a soccer ball, not a clock, not any ball or any random object that is round-the only thing the blank circular-shape did match was an odd looking square die?! And the Pingo game has many errors. No point to it because I had the number 1 come up in the correct row MANY times but it would not recognize it, wouldn't light it up, and would not let me click on it so it was never counted. Also, when I had NO matches and no numbers were lit up, it still wouldn't allow me to spin. Frustrated (and confused), I started to click all around, including over the blank spaces- turns out the number I needed in order to spin again would be one of the blank spaces that had already been counted-?!!
This happened on almost all of the Pingo levels and it was very annoying. I quit the game and restarted it but the issue remained.
The idea behind this game was good, but the game itself is not without its problems.

Too bad you cant update the software...so I'm either stuck with the faulty game or forced to uninstall it.

Thanks anyway GGOTD.

No problem for me loading with Vista though the first time I received a message that it might not have loaded properly and did I want to re-install using the right something or other. When I get that message I have learn to following the instructions as I've done something wrong. Game installed on my C drive into my game folder where I was able to make a short cut to my desk top. When the game first opened it was black for about a minute (first time only each time after that about 10 seconds)than the game came up and plays wonderfully. Thanks for the new HOG. I perfer a more adventure type HOG, but LOVE FREE. Can't beat that any day. Thanks for the good work. Keep it up.

Het is wel heel veel van hetzelfde! En dan ook nog hetzelfde spel in het zoveelste andere jasje...

Ik klaag niet hoor! Dank voor alles wat gratis is!

Whiterabbit-uk - Do you know what the thread description is for this:

"...there’s also a Bif Fish offer on where you can download four or five games (this is an old offer, but the games are still freely available) you’ll have to search the last few pages of the Games forums for the links to these two offers..."

I've looked in Chit Chat and also searched for "free games" but can't seem to locate this info. THANKS!

Thanks W.R. I tried the file you said, got another error message Data Error in Setup the file is broken. I give up, maybe GGAOTD will bring it back and I can get it then.

GGOTD - Thank you for the wonderful games.

I have recently installed Golden Prague, and today the Vegas game.

PROBLEM: I would like to UN-install Prague now, but I can't find it in the Control Panel for uninstalling... and I can't see the Vegas there either. I can "Explore" and locate them both in :C/Games, but there is no "uninstaller" in either folder.

How do I properly delete these games when I no longer want them?
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.

I tried to open the mysterious city, Vegas but it will not let me set up the program as I keep getting the message that there are not enough users to warrant letting it through my security & that it is corrupted. How do I get around this? I have Golden Prague & it set up & plays perfectly.

This game is extremely challenging - if you have poor eyesight! I have to get some reading glasses, it seems..

Thanks, GOTD for this game .. I love HOG's and am looking forward to playing this one!

The PINGO game in this download has some glitches. I have had several instances when one of my numbers was in the random numbers and I could not click on them to remove them from my 5x5 grid. This happened to me several times. One time it was 2 numbers and in another level game it was 5 or more numbers...this makes this mini-game not very fun to play, and I really enjoyed it until that happened.

I'm not sure, but I think it mostly happens when the random number is on the bottom row (just trying to help de-bug this).

It also seems that if you have not clicked on all of the numbers that are clickable, it will not let you spin again, so it does take away some of the challenge, of looking carefully. The other thing is that it highlights the numbers that you can click, this too takes away some of the challenge of careful observation.

I, too, really enjoy this genre of games but like different match-3 games too. Thank you for another great download!!!

The game downloads fine but when I open it it does not show up it the games folder and does not show up in a search, I have already tried clearing the browser history. Any ideas?
Paul

I posted at #11 with my problem, it wasn't until WR post at #19 for Tammy and I tried that solution. Yay, it works fine for me now. That will teach me to read ALL of the review. :)

Thanks for the info, WR! Just hope if it happens again I don't have a "senior moment"!

Thanks GGOTD! The game downloaded fine. I played it and saw that this one as does Cario has the relaxed play. This one also crashes after a while of play same as the other Mysterious City games. Vegas does seem to be easier, but it's still fun.

Glad you got it working larry. :lol:

W.R.

Thanks for your help Whiterabbit.
I did the search & I showed were I had "looked" before.
Got it going now.
BTW.. I showed the game has an Icon - a red poker chip - but; as you said, they didn't bother to be nice enough to do it for us.
Thanks for your time and help. "WR"

Just for clarification, Topaz, your system was trying to install the one from the cache and not overwriting it when you attempted new downloads. And the one from the cache was likely damaged. That would explain it, anyway, if you did a new download after you cleared cache. That explains a lot of errors people get while browsing or installing, because if you get anything garbled while surfing, the browser keeps trying to use the garbled instructions from the cache. It won't download new, uncorrupted copies. That's because browsers don't look at size or analyze corruption, they just go by file or page date to determine whether they need to redownload.

I too like these hidden object games. I really missed GGOTD during the summer. Actually I like most games, but especially puzzle and word games. Cairo seems to be working just fine on both my 3 yr old desktop and this older slower laptop. Both running XP

pretty good time killer. Installed and ran just find on win7 32bit. Had problems with my moms computer (windows Vista 64 bit), installed find but when she ran it got black screen and had to do a hard shutdown. took awhile but found out the problem was that there were spaces in the path to the .exe file(c:\games\mysterious city vegas\vegas.exe), changed to (c:\games\mysterious_city_vegas\vegas.exe) works great now. overall good game, but the path thing is rather annoying.

Installed fine for me on XP Pro SP2. I have the other 2 and play them often. This was fun but 2 of the casino games are all luck and no skill, just like most of the games in Vegas. The poker one does have a slight skill element, again just like Vegas.

I install my games on an external drive and it remembered that and attempted to install on E:Games. When I said yes it made its own sub-folder just fine.

Thanks to Gold Casual and GGAOTD for this one. I look forward to more cities in the future.

Thanks, Whiterabbit-uk! I've been searching internet all day trying to find a solution to my install problem with this game and you provided it! I don't think 7-Zip was the solution because I was still getting "cannot create Vegas/images/levels..." error even after unzipping with that. What fixed my problem was clearing IE cache! Installed like a dream after changing the install folder from "Golden Prague" to "Vegas"! Thanks bunches, W.R.!

Hi Larry, try searching for Vegas (the name of the executable). It's possible the game is being installed to somewhere you'd not expect it to. It doesn't install any shortcuts, so unless you know exactly where it's installed to it's going to be hard to start (ob).

or....

If you reinstall the game, make a note of where it's being installed to. That way you should be able to find the game.


If the game isn't installing, try cleaning out your cache or rebooting your router and modem; maybe even turning your security off temporarily.

I hope one of the above works for you.

W.R.

love this type of game, keep them comning, thanks

Thanks! I love these Mysterious City games!

I forgot to mention I'm running XP, if that matters.

I am downloading this as I have just as of late started checking out HOG. However, if you have not found Mostfun.com check out the link below where there are 2 pages of HOGs (you do have some commercials though) http://www.mostfun.com/GamesByType.aspx?selection=Hidden+Object

Mod if the link in against policy please remove or edit a need be.

I've D/L at least 10 times in the last 9 hours. Shows game "activated"; but, it never installs. I've checked c:\games and it never shows. I've also checked add/remove programs & it hasn't shown there yet either.
I know I must be repeating some mistake(?) because results are the same.
I've never had any problems using GGOD in 3 years. Why now ? Any ideas anyone ?
Thanks !

These game makes yours eyes pop out.

!!!!
I'm bursting! Thank you so much for this game ggaotd! I love these mysterious city games!!!!

Hi Samm,

I've had the same problem with some zip files. Try 7Zip rather than WinRar:

http://www.7-zip.org/

If you continue to have problems clear out your internet cache. If you use I.E. just rght click on your internet icon and select properties. The rest is probably self explanatory

To Sue,

you're doing nothing wrong, just chage the install path by typing over cairo. It'll then instal correctly. I get the same problem. You just have to choose another install path during the initial installatio.


W.R.

I enjoyed the first two games, and am very much looking forward to playing this one. I found there were a few minor glitches and annoyances in the first two games, but nothing that put me off them. To be honest, I have not come across any games - here, on other sites, or purchased elsewhere - that haven't had a few things that could be improved upon. I've found the Mysterious City series to be quite decent so far, with a lot fewer glitches than many other games I've come across, and I highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys the hidden object games. While they are not quite as challenging as some, they are still very enjoyable little time-wasters. :)

Thank you GAOTD, and it's nice to see you back on the games side!

I downloaded this game and everytime I try to install it it keeps trying to install Mysterious City: Golden Prague. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
Sue

I really wanted this game, but I kept getting an error message the first 2 times I tried to run it..
Windows cannot complete extraction. Destination could not be created. So I looked around and and was told to try with WinRaR, I did and it gave the following message. M:\GAOTD\MysteriousCityVegas.zip: CRC failed in Setup.exe. The file is corrupt,

Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks really a lot for this game! If had played the other parts of "Mysterious city" SO often, that I really was "dying" for new stuff!